[chirp_users] Leixen VV-898E?

[Chris Fosnight]

I have had success with a VV-898 on Elementary OS (Ubuntu derivative). It
appears, based on your debug line, that there is an invalid UTF-8 character
floating around. I've worked on some drivers, and have looked at the leixen
driver a little. I'm not sure if that is a bug in the driver or if the
radio allows something non-standard to be programmed in via the menu
interface. Are you able to run chirp from the terminal and get any
additional error messages? Try posting that and I'll look at the driver to
see what I can find. You should probably file a bug report.

How many channels have you programmed? Is it feasible to reset and try a
download with memory or two programmed? Is it possible to download from one
of the new radios to get a clean image (to see if any download is possible,
or you still get errors)? Those are some things I would try to troubleshoot
the issue.

If that doesn't point us to a solution, you can try using the OEM software.
I tried running it with Wine on linux without success (and without too much
investigation). You can try Wine on your Mac or just use Windows if you
have access. Another option would be running CHIRP on a live linux usb
drive.

Chris, KG7QCP


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Jardy via chirp_users <
chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> I believe that I have had success with a VV-898 on Windows 10. Just make
> sure if your cable shows to be a Prolific, use driver 3.2.0.0.
>
> Jardy Dawson WA7JRD
> Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies using the Universal
> Translator.
>
>
> On May 25, 2017, at 09:47, Steve Sergeant <stevesgt at effable.com> wrote:
>
> Since my earlier message thread got hijacked:
>
> Have any of you reading this had any luck programming the Leixen VV-898E
> on a recent build of Chirp, with any computer platform?
>
>
> On 5/20/17 10:59 AM, Steve Sergeant wrote:
>
> Just to ping the group again:
>
>
> Has anybody out there had recent luck programming the Leixen VV-898E
>
> using a recent build of Chirp on MacOS?
>
>
>
>
> On 5/2/17 0:08 AM, Steve Sergeant wrote:
>
> I just installed chirp-daily-20170501.app to try. I am attempting to
>
> copy setups from one Leixen VV-898E radio into several others.
>
>
> However, a fraction of a second after the screen fills with the data
>
> from the radio, Chirp unexpectedly quits, and I'm given the opportunity
>
> to send a report to Apple.
>
>
> My system is:
>
>
> Macbook Air 11" (MacBookAir6,1)
>
> MacOS X 10.11.6 (15G1421)
>
> 4GB RAM
>
>
> The last line in .chirp/debug.log reads:
>
> /Users/username/Applications/chirp-daily-20170501.app/
> Contents/MacOS/../Resources/chirp/chirpw:143:
>
> PangoWarning: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>
>  gtk.main()
>
>
> I'm using the osx-pl2303-installer.pkg for my serial driver. This is
>
> currently the only radio for which I have a programming cable.
>
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